June 8, 2009, Monday

AUTO RACING GOOD DAY FOR YATES TEAM -- Robert Yates Racing emerged from the darkest season in team history yesterday to take the Daytona 500 spotlight. At least for a week. David Gilliland and Ricky Rudd won the top two starting spots in...

June 4, 2006, Sunday

Kevin Harvick seemed to have it all working. He was funneling his intensity into his pursuit of the Winston Cup championship, and he was not a regular in Nascar's big red truck being reprimanded for poor behavior on or off the track.

September 14, 2003, Sunday

Ricky Rudd and a Robert Yates Racing employee were fined a total of $15,000 and placed on probation for the rest of the season yesterday by Nascar for fighting in the garage. Rudd was fined $5,000 and Larry Lackey, an employee of Yates's engine...

September 11, 2002, Wednesday

The Ricky Rudd saga ended yesterday when he signed a three-year contract with the Wood Brothers to drive the No. 21 Ford, effectively swapping seats with Elliott Sadler. Sadler, who asked to be released from his contract with the Wood Brothers at...

August 21, 2002, Wednesday

Ricky Rudd did not let the distraction of his impending departure from his team slow him down yesterday. Rudd turned a lap at 122.696 miles an hour in a Ford and won the pole for tomorrow's Winston Cup race at Watkins Glen International. For...

August 10, 2002, Saturday

Ricky Rudd could leave his team as early as next week and set off a chain reaction in which drivers bounce from job to job, but Robert Yates, one of the most powerful owners in stock car racing, tries not to worry too much about that. He took time...

July 10, 2002, Wednesday

Robert Yates, who owns the cars driven by Ricky Rudd and Dale Jarrett, ordered his pit crew members to begin wearing headgear yesterday, a reaction to the pit-lane accident that seriously injured one of his employees. Yates's decision came as...